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Wordlessly, she strode across the little space, leaned down, and kissed him.
That threw him back in his chair, and he put his hands on her hips to steady her and keep her from overturning them. She didn’t care. She kissed him deeply and then climbed onto his lap with her knees on either side of his thighs, never breaking the kiss.
“Slow down,” he sputtered. “How did you get up here?”
She sat up and ran her hand over the scruff of his beard. “Magic. Literally.”
“That’s crazy. I have a thousand books.”
She sagged. “A thousand!”
“You can call your collection a library if you have a thousand books.”
God, she loved and hated this man so much. “I’m living in a library.”
“Why is that funny?”
“Never mind,” she said and got up. She was turned on, sleep-deprived, and stressed. Sex was about as useful as small talk in this situation.
She glanced out the window when a spear of sunlight illuminated the room. As she watched, the sun came up over the edge of the hills, flooding the valley with golden light. “Whoa.”
“Yeah, word has it, the idiot who built this place cut down fifty trees to get this moment. Seriously, how did you know?”
She turned back to him. “I asked my magic to find the wolf. It lit upWhite Fang.”
“Incredible.”
“I hated that book,” she said feelingly.
He glanced at her in surprise.
“It was full of wolves,” she said vaguely. “Back when wolves were, you know.”
He stood up, and she pressed her forehead into his shoulder.
“You were supposed to be scary, remember?” she said.
“We never thought you feared us. We feared you. You guys have freaking magic. What would a wolf have against that?”
“Big teeth?”
He cupped her face, peering into her eyes. “What’s wrong?”
She kissed him hard and fast. “I’m trapped by a pack of terrible dire wolves deep in the Appalachians. Send help.”
He didn’t smile at her joke. “We’ll get the wards open.”
Everything in her wanted to tell him and enlist his help. She looked around this room and out at the dawn. His entire family was on the other side of the valley, hiding from him. She couldn’t rope him into her stupid plan. If he ended up fighting Buck and getting hurt, she would never be able to live with herself.
“Don’t worry about it.”
He squinted at her. “You keep saying that. Every time you say that my blood pressure goes up five hundred points.”
She laughed. “I think you’d be dead.”
“You won’t confide in me?” he asked seriously. He was so seldom serious.
She wanted to. She wanted nothing more, but she couldn’t risk him.
